AI Just Isn’t Right
…for is “post hoc” fact-checking, the Snopes-style analysis of something’s factuality after the fact. In the UK, an initiative called Full Fact has built out its own AI tools…
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Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
…creative field has begun to dread in the age of AI. Digital media outlets that have been continually restructured over the years would seem to be particularly fertile ground for such deals…
Zest Maps Is the AI-Powered ‘Spiritual Successor to Foursquare’
…AI tools like ChatGPT, which remains true. But I was surprised by just how much I liked the idea of Zest. The app’s value proposition will be too invasive for some…
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
…Spam calls have been a scourge for decades, and the threat has only ramped up as attackers have started incorporating AI voice-cloning tools into their attacks—making it possible to convincingly…
Meta Copies Snapchat’s Homework Again With ‘Plus’ Features for Instagram and Facebook
…It offered users access to exclusive features in the app and expanded over the few years, adding more options as well as AI tools. In February, Snapchat announced that this style of…
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
…The ability for Claude Mythos and other new AI models to design hacking tools that can find and exploit vulnerabilities in both new and legacy software has forced tech companies and governments…
You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
…has “already been compliant for several months.” Meta offers a help page that includes directions for submitting requests on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Meta AI. Microsoft To file a takedown request for…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…and Claude Code has never been tighter. But as these tools become more capable—and more widely imposed by corporate leaders seeking efficiency—there are bigger questions for society to contend with…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
…Anthropic, which is the only company currently providing AI chatbot and analysis tools for the military’s most sensitive use cases, pushed back. It contends that its technologies are not yet capable…
The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
…Image Playground Upgrades Want to create AI slop? Apple has a more powerful image-generation model for its Image Playground app, meaning you can create higher-quality AI images in virtually any…